This tune wandered into my mental jukebox the other day and just would not go away.I had Quickstep and Sidekick on cassette which if my memory serves me well had extra tracks to the LP version. It’s long surprised me that it’s never been re-released as the album ,for me, sits nicely between The Thompson [...]
Dan of London . a tiny light in the darkness of comments that can sometimes be the BBC’s Have Your Say.
You and me both, Dan.
Today Freesat finally launches in the UK after a series of protracted false starts. A satellite dish based counterpart to the existing free-to view digital TV service Freeview it provides greater UK wide coverage than Freeview and brings the benefit of High Definition channels such as BBC HD and ITV HD along with a larger [...]
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Long before Gordon Brown finally became British prime minister after Tony Blair retired from office, I and many others had already drawn potential parallels between Brown and James Callaghan , a previous old Labour prime minister who took over from Harold Wilson when he retired suddenly in 1976.
I’d told myself that Gordon would [...]
Well, it compensates high earners! Give low earners free access to the legal system so they can tackle the prejudice against them. Freedom can be just a question of money. If you have no money and have little chance of getting any extra, to take on the ’system’, them you are just bullied by it. [...]
